Greenery Pantone Color Quilt Challenge

OK.  I know that you've already seen this quilt. I finished it in March and blogged about it the beginning of April.  When I was working on in a couple people mentioned to me that the colors would work for the 2017 Pantone Quilt Challenge.

So, as far as I can tell, it doesn't matter what you made the quilt for, as long as it was finished in 2017.  So here is my entry for the Mini Quilt Category.

Green Weaver

Finished dimensions are 12" x 12".

(I don't actually have the quilt anymore, or I might have taken brighter pictures.  I will have the opportunity to bid on it in the fall and buy it back, which I just might.)

 I will spare you the whole story - you can go back and read it here if you want.

 I figured I'd share a couple of the in progress shots for interest.

 And of course the back.

 It's not too late for you to join the link up.  There is even a category for Tops Only.

Green Weaver a Yellow Green Crayon Challenge

I told myself that this year I wasn't going to do the crayon challenge at our guild.  And then, I took a crayon anyway. I pulled Yellow Green.   I remembered that color from when I was a kid!  It was one of those deceptive crayons that didn't actually color the same color as the way it looked.  Cornflower is another one of those tricky crayons.

Anyway, for the first time ever, I started right away.  I pulled out some ombre fabric from Dwaibo.  Perfect.  I wanted to do some sort of weaving of colors that incorporated the whole range of yellow green.

Some progress photos:

 I pinned the strips to a piece of white to hold things together.

 I also added other fabrics, some ribbon and some yarn.  Going with the "more is more" idea.

 Pulled out the yellow green threads.  Ended up using the Aurifil.

 The first thing I did was zigzag over all the yarn strings.  Then I quilting straight lines on each side of the raw strips.  After the quilting, I knew that I would never be able to trim all the strings, so I sprayed the whole thing with water and used a toothbrush to make more strings!

 The backing fabric came out of my mom's stash.  I think she made some kind of wreath with the fabric.  I turned the quilt in last Monday!  On to the next project.

Oh, and, with the left over strips I made a hot pad. :) Bad binding, but that's ok.  It will be spaghetti sauced soon.